Improvement in refrigerators



UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

ELI s. BITNER, 0F LOOK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN REFRIGERATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 169,078, dated October26, 1875; application filed March 12, 1875.

To all whom it may 0071667'1-2:

Be it known that I, ELI S. BITNER, of the city of Lock Haven, in thecounty of Clinton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new anduseful Improvement on a Refrigerator; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to theaccompanyingdrawings making a part of this specification, in WhichFigure 1 is a perspective view.

My invention consists in the construction and combination of theice-box, drip-pan, and

drip-tubes, whereby each may be separately and easily Withdrawn from therefrigerator to be cleaned, or for repairs or other purpose, and of theintervention of sponge between drip-pan and ice-box, to prevent sedimentfrom clogging the drip-tube and air from entering the refrigerator byway of the drip-tube.

A is the ice-box secured in the upper part of the casing, and leavingair-spaces between two of its sides and the casing. One or more holes inthe bottom of the ice-box aflord passage for the drip. X are openings intwo sides of the ice-box. B is a shallow metallic drippan, havingspring-hooks yextending upward from it, and claspin g the ice-boxthrough openings 00. These hooks may be separate from the drip-pan andclamp under it, as well as hang on the ice-box. A short outlet-pipe, 2,

depends from and communicates with the orifice in the bottom of thedrip-pan. The'outlet-pipe z enters closely, yet removably, the straightand vertical drip-pipe'O, which cxtends closely, but removably, throughthe bottom of the refrigerator. Between the bottom of the ice-box andthe drip-pan, and covering the mouth of the outlet-pipe z, is compresseda piece of sponge, D. It follows that the d rippan B may be removed bypressing it upward and detaching the hooks y from the ice-box, or, whenthe hooks are separate, by detaching them from its bottom. Thereupon thedrippipe may be removed by drawing it upward or even downward throughthe bottom of the refrigerator. The sponge, saturated with drip,prevents sediment from entering the drip-tube and air from coming upthrough the driptube into the refrigerator.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the ice-box having openings w, the drip-pan havinghooks y and outlet 2, the sponge D, and the drip-pipe 0, all these partssave the ice-box being separable from each other and from therefrigerator, as and for the purposes set forth.

ELI S. BITNER.

Witnesses:

J. A. HARVEY, EUGENE L. PAGKER.

